NO JOKE
If Internet Explorer suddenly prompts you to press the F1 key, don't. It can initiate a virus.
Here is what Snope has to say:
http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/f1key.asp
F1 key virus
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Constantine
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F1 key virus
A man ... wants to give his wife ... the interest in a little homestead where her sister lives. How wicked to have found fault with it. How petty to have found fault with it. (Hosea Knowlton in his closing argument.)
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twinsrwe
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TruthOrFiction.com has a list of the affected software packages.
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/m/MS-F1-attack.htm
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/m/MS-F1-attack.htm
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"Vaya Con Dios" (Spanish for: "Go with God"), by Anne Murray ( https://tinyurl.com/y8nvqqx9 )
“God has you in heaven, but I have you in my heart.” ~ TobyMac (https://tinyurl.com/rakc5nd )
"Vaya Con Dios" (Spanish for: "Go with God"), by Anne Murray ( https://tinyurl.com/y8nvqqx9 )
“God has you in heaven, but I have you in my heart.” ~ TobyMac (https://tinyurl.com/rakc5nd )
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augusta
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Thank you, Constantine.
My laptop crashed about a month ago. Pop up reminders telling me my Adobe needed updating and to "click here", Java "click here" fake updates, and big-as-your-screen "click here"s for my security system caused it. I had stopped clicking on the Java and Adobe ones. They were small and at the bottom of the screen, and if you left them alone they'd go away eventually. But the other one you had no choice but to "x" it out.
Our main computer was having it happening too, and I scanned it probably just before it was gonna crash. I was one day late in scanning my laptop. Ooh, it was scary, too. Just no access at all and a blue screen that kept telling me to "click here" to restart, which just brought me back to that page again and again.
Cost $115 to fix it. I fail to understand why hackers do this stuff. They're not even there to see you swear and get mad. I sure wish they'd catch more of them.
My laptop crashed about a month ago. Pop up reminders telling me my Adobe needed updating and to "click here", Java "click here" fake updates, and big-as-your-screen "click here"s for my security system caused it. I had stopped clicking on the Java and Adobe ones. They were small and at the bottom of the screen, and if you left them alone they'd go away eventually. But the other one you had no choice but to "x" it out.
Our main computer was having it happening too, and I scanned it probably just before it was gonna crash. I was one day late in scanning my laptop. Ooh, it was scary, too. Just no access at all and a blue screen that kept telling me to "click here" to restart, which just brought me back to that page again and again.
Cost $115 to fix it. I fail to understand why hackers do this stuff. They're not even there to see you swear and get mad. I sure wish they'd catch more of them.